Feb 22, 2017 | Legal Updates
As set forth in our prior articles, the new Arizona law, Proposition 206, requires employers post a notice in the workplace describing employees’ rights under the Act. We recommend the policy also be set forth in employee handbooks. Employers should take action now...
Jan 12, 2017 | Legal Updates
Proposition 206, the Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act (“the Act”), which incrementally increases minimum wage over the next several years became effective January 1, 2017, raising the state’s minimum wage from $8.05 per hour to $10.00 per hour. The Act also...
Jan 5, 2017 | Legal Updates
The Industrial Commission of Arizona recently published an unofficial guide to Proposition 206 (the Fair Wages and Health Families Initiative mandating increased minimum wage pay and mandatory protected sick leave for employees), entitled “Frequently Asked Questions,”...
Nov 22, 2016 | Legal Updates
All U.S. employers must complete a Form I-9 for every newly hired employee, verifying their eligibility to work in this country. The current Form I-9 has been in use since March 2013, and since that date numerous rules relating to proper completion of it have exposed...
Nov 16, 2016 | Legal Updates
Background: The Fair Labor Standards Act (the FLSA) sets a minimum wage for most employees in the United States (with states having the right to increase it). The FLSA also requires that overtime be paid to employees when they work more than 40 hours in a workweek. As...
Nov 10, 2016 | Legal Updates
A solid majority of Arizonans who voted in the November election favored Proposition 206, and as a result, approximately 800,000 minimum wage earners in our state will get a raise on January 1, 2017, and they, along with hundreds of thousands of other Arizona...
